Exodus 23:14

times Heb. regâlîm, lit. feet, i.e. foot-beats, fig. for -times"; so besides only Numbers 22:28; Numbers 22:32-33 (also E). In v.17 the more ordinary Heb. word is used (pe-âmîm).

keep a pilgrimage] The word (ḥag) means a feast accompanied by a pilgrimage (see on Exodus 10:9): there were only threeof these in the Jewish year. Ḥagis to be carefully distinguished from the wider term mô-çd(rendered variously in RV. set feast, appointed feast, solemn[i.e., like the Lat. solemnis, stated, recurring] feast, solemn assembly, solemnity: see e.g. Leviticus 23:2; Leviticus 23:4; Leviticus 23:37; Leviticus 23:44; Hosea 2:11; Hosea 9:5; Hosea 12:9; Isaiah 1:14; Isaiah 33:20; Lamentations 1:4; Lamentations 1:15; Lamentations 2:6-7; Ezekiel 36:38; Ezekiel 44:24; Ezekiel 45:17; Ezekiel 46:9; Ezekiel 46:11), which means properly a fixed timeor season, and is applied to any fixed sacred season(including e.g. the Day of Atonement and New Year's Day), whether observed by a pilgrimage or not (see esp. Leviticus 23, which, as vv.2, 4 shew, is a Calendar of such mô-ădim).